The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

I never expected to be anybody important.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.